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I realised yesterday that I've not actually visited some of the major free galleries / museums in London. Oops. So I started with the Tate Britain. Next will be the V&A I expect.

So this is a thread where you can tell me about your FAVOURITE galleries and museums, WHEREVER they are in the world.

I went to an excellent gallery in Prague but I can't for the life of me remember what it was called. It was full of modern stuff and was really rather empty which was why I liked it. Also I love the Photographer's Gallery in London (man I cannot wait until it reopens in May); and FOAM in Amsterdam. Oh, and the gallery of war photography in Dubrovnik is really fucking harrowing but excellent.

I've seen some amazing stuff there, it's very peaceful, a good size and really good for a daytime date. It's on the edge of the borough of Camden though, near Finchley Rd & Frognall overground station.

Obvious choice, but it is just so massive and full of crazy shit. I liked the Orsay in Paris, also the museum of Communism in Prague and Statue Park in Budapest are interesting. I like the stylings of communism a lot more than their politics.

It's like a really brilliant book on the SS and general Nazi evilness come to life. As in you read one bit, then move along, good pictures too. Not like most other museums where you're zigzagging all over the place. Spent about 6 hours in there just reading.

It's a museum hosting the collection of Dr Thomas Mutter who collected loads of stuff for medical research. There's a whole floor of stuff in formaldahyde juges like snakes, foestuses (discovered afterwards some of those are waxworks) and colons.

He had pieces of two Presidential assassins as he tried to discover if something genetic made people want to kill the President.

He also had thousands of skulls he bought from all over the world to compare skull development by race.

although it loses a point for having the most impressive bit right at the start, as soon as you walk in. The rest of it is a bit less impressive after that...but then it gains a point again when you get to the Ishtar Gate, if that's what it's called

Orangerie in Paris. Monet waterlilies in 360 degrees!
House of Terror in Budapest - the most direct way of dealing with a violent, oppressive past i can imagine
Horniman Museum, Forest Hill
enjoyed the Museum of Flight (probably not its actual name, can't remember off the top of my head) in Seattle, in the old Boeing factory